“How do we fix this?!” Mum yelled and I shivered in fright. I had no idea, everything I'd done as a teenager was thrown into the air and I had to talk to the media. Nobody would believe that I wasn't still cheating on 7 men and my career in Rubenn was ruined forever.
“I'll do anything you ask, ma but I still want modeling gigs and an increased following. My following has gone down by 40% and I can't afford to risk any of this.”
“Oh! Sophia. I wish I could squeeze you into a little ball of paper then tear you into thousands of pieces.” Mum snarled, wishfully but all I could do was sob. I knew she'd be irked with me later on but not after resolving the issue.”
“Mum, please.” I whimpered, wishing that I go extinct. I couldn't go online without bursting into tears. I never refuse the fact that I'd cheated on various guys and had sex but it had nothing to do with pleasure.
Mum knew the root cause of why I was that addicted to sex but that couldn't be told to teem of people reaching for every detail of my life and clawing it apart. It'd put her into a bad light especially due to the fact that I was her child and I'd never seen a shrink.
Drugs were prescribed by doctors who felt it was a biological malfunction and psychiatrists who listened to my mother shapen the problem and the cause with her diploma in deceitful activities to get drugs and medicine.
A scream rang out of my throat when I heard clattering sounds of various things. Mum was having what I'd termed, “Furious moment”. We were in her office and I knew that nobody would know a thing especially because I'd clean up and trash everything as it's always been.
“Stupid! Stupid!” Mum shouted and hopped onto the table, sniffing like a maniac. I wish I could scream and bolt away but that'll lead me into far much trouble.
I recall a time when I'd bolted away due to how devilish her mannerisms were but I’d been sent to her psychiatry hospital for the rest of the week. Staying with mentally unstable people when you'd just tried to escape being beaten wasn't the worst instance of Mum's evil towards me but it left me traumatized with nightmares until I'd had my first sex encounter with a male a few years later.
I can go on and on but I'd rather focus on the present which was salvaging myself from the vicious words and their summaries about me.
“I need you to pull off your clothes or I'll tear them off.” She growled and another flood of tears escaped their banks. I've learned to cry lowly no matter what, she hated whimpers or blubbers and could twist your ankle for such an attempt.
“Ma, please.” I cried, my hands stiff. I didn't care if she'd go into her animalistic fit and fling me across the room, she wouldn't make me start hopping onto every dick I came across. She'd made me do that from the first dick I'd tried in my teenage years up until David's but that'd be all for now. At least until the whole social media hit dies down.
“Do you have problems with hearing?” She asked as a hot slap on my ear made me nod positively to her question. That sent disapproval to the recesses of her brain and she sent another slap flying onto my cheek.
A scream louder than I could ever think I'd make, came out from the bottom of my belly. Her look was murderous and with the pressure her mind was experiencing currently, I knew I'd be placed close to David in the hospital in a few hours. In addition to that, I didn't want her to do what she had in mind to me.
Ignoring my scream, she started to hit me and tear off my clothes with a ferocious speed. Within seconds, I was naked and pinned to the ground as her lips rounded my nipples but edged up a little and headbutted her. The pain was unexpected and so great that she lost interest in touching me. As I gathered my body up and into a ball, we both heard a gasp.
I placed my red eyes on the familiar face as my patched lips made a sound, “Dad.” Then, everything went dark.
I woke up to someone's fingers fiddling with my hair and I stiffened, but then slowly relaxed when I noticed the movement of the fingers. They were thicker than Mum's and didn't tug at my hair in intervals. A memory of the touch made me prop my head up to be sure it was Dad.
His eyes brightened when he saw I'd awoken and he whispered, “Hi girly.” It was a deep croak and the empty look in his eyes told me that he was retracing everything and killing himself within for not seeing it.
“Hi.” I returned the whisper, my voice a bit gruff due to the fact that I'd been quiet for a while. He looked down at me, his eyes asked… seeking, pleading.
“H-Has she b-been the one all this while? You weren't on meds or throwing tantrums.” He struggled to speak but made sure to keep eye contact.
I sat up and faced him. “I–I didn't throw tantrums but I took drugs for my heightened sex drive and depression. The depression drugs also helped induce sleep.” I avoided his gaze. “That's the reason for the videos from those guys. They're all true, Dad but I've stopped over 3 years ago to focus on David but I guess I'd always be a cheat, this time on my younger sister.” By the last sentence, my tears were back and my words were hurried out in order to avoid being clouded by the tears in my throat.
“I get that.” He remarked and planted a kiss on the top of my head. “I thought that I should look into her reports about you but work always got in the way.” Or work came in first before me or Mum or Soph.
“I returned to lash out at you because the videos actually made a few investors draw out their investments but I didn't meet you in your room or any place the maids recommended so I went to meet your mother in her office I heard muffled screams and used my key. I met her hitting you mercilessly and tearing off your clothes.” He pulled me in for another head peck. “I'm sorry you had to go through all of that.” He sniffled.
I moved away from him. “It's fine, dad. Where's she now?” I swallowed in fear, hoping she wasn't anywhere close by.
He rubbed his hands together and drew them on his cheeks, “I can't have her arrested, Aud until we have a divorce. It's all we can do now for the save of the family business.”
I sighed deeply. I knew his discovery wouldn't change anything. Mum still had a say and a choke hold on him like she did ok everyone else except Sophia. If only Sophia knew whom she was up against, she'd ask for assistance from whoever is ready to give it and knows lots of dirt about Mum.
Someone like me? I can help Sophia bring down Mum but that'll only happen if I'm safely out of this house. Mum would definitely find out and I'd be killed. She'll have another nasty but believable lie to tell the public.
“What are we going to do about the news spreading now?” I asked calmly knowing that Dad could be a hard nut and wasn't as cunning as Mum could be but I'd stated enough with Mum to take up her role in this arrangement.
“Firstly, I've made arrangements to get you out of this place very early tomorrow morning. Every part of this mansion would be graded to keep you safe until you're out. The scandals can continue but if you're out of the mansion and doing something else with a different identity, they'll die down.” I smiled, I loved his suggestion.
But suddenly, I remembered someone, “Dad, can I get a few bodyguards to meet with someone before I leave?”
His nod was abrupt as he stood and left the room leaving me smiling quietly.